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A Mega Millions playslip for those players preferring to choose the numbers they want to play is among the stacks of other lottery game playslips on display at a Smoker Friendly store, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Cranberry Township, Pa. The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to $1 billion ahead of Friday night's drawing after more than four months without a winner.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ORG XMIT: PAKS102

What you need to know about Mega Millions

Here's everything you need to know about Mega Millions from when is the next drawing to how to play the game.

Vicki Love-Freeman, owner of The East Port Galley Restaurant and Pub, chats with customers Thursday, April 27, 2023 at the business in East Peoria.

Here are 11 Peoria-area restaurants that have closed so far this year

Some restaurants had been in business for decades, while others had been open a few years.

Metamora junior Tyler Mason led his team in every stat during the 2022-23 season. He guided the Redbirds to 32 straight wins, including a nail-biting overtime victory over Chicago Simeon for a Class 3A state basketball championship, the first in program history.

Peoria area's top high school basketball player finds college home

Metamora all-state point guard Tyler Mason will play at NCAA Division II Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.

On Feb. 26, 1968, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen told how he succeeded in getting a Peoria prostitute to repent when he was a parish priest in South Peoria in 1926. He included the story in a sermon at a Mass which he celebrated at St. Patrick's church to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the parish. The bishop, who now heads the diocese of Rochester, N.Y., spent a year at St. Patrick's in the only service he ever had as a parish priest.

Demolished church's history includes sainthood candidate, stand-up comic

Sainthood candidate Fulton J. Sheen and famed comedian Sam Kinison linked to former St. Patrick's church in Peoria. The structure collapsed in July 2023.

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